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Kol Aryeh. Jerusalem, 1866. Magnificent Copy. Publisher's Gift to the Sassoon Family
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Kol Aryeh. Jerusalem, 1866. Magnificent Copy. Publisher's Gift to the Sassoon Family
Kol Aryeh - in-depth Talmudic studies by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Charif, published by his grandson Rabbi Shneur Zalman [Mendlowitz] of Hebron. Jerusalem, [1866]. Magnificent copy. The binding bears a gold embossed dedication from the publisher to philanthropist Chaim David Sassoon.
Two title pages, with an illustration of Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
The book was published by the author's grandson, Rabbi Shneur Zalman Mendlowitz of Hebron, with many prominent approbations. In his lengthy preface, the publisher writes about his fundraising mission for the Kollel Ashkenazim Chabad and his trips to the Orient. He additionally writes about his encounters with the Sassoon family in various countries, and details their help in printing the book, in memory of their father R' David Sassoon, who passed away just prior to the book's printing. Refer to Yaari, Shluchei Eretz Yisrael 695-696, regarding this fundraising mission.
This copy was gifted by the publisher to the Sassoon family who helped fund the printing. The book is bound in a deluxe binding with gilt decorations and gilt inscription [in Hebrew]: "This is presented as a gift to my beloved friend Chaim David Sassoon ... from Zalman Mendlowitz of Hebron London."
[4] 80 leaves. Very fine condition, other than light stains on the endpaper.
